AUCTION REVIEW BONHAMS, LONDON. 15 DECEMBER
More than half of the lots at Bond Street were Aston Martins – but it was a Porsche that broke a model record
The plethora of Aston Martins in Bonhams’ The Bond Street Sale ranged from a 1962 DB4 Vantage (sold for £230,000) to the seven-strong 2010 V8 Vantage ‘Race Collection’, all offered without reserve. Top-price Aston Martin was a 1990 V8 Vantage
X-pack, the Newport Pagnell heavy-hitter making a strong £356,500.
The 1965 Porsche 911 – the first prototype RHD model – was away for £304,750, just breaking into its £300- 500k estimate. A 1975 911 Turbo – an early example and the sixth delivered to the UK, apprently – meanwhile pulled £147,200 against a £140-180k pres-sale estimate.
Pre-war cars included a 1927 Bugatti Type 40 that failed to sell but the sale’s oldest car, a 1913 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost, sold for £117,300.
020 7468 5801
1933 ROLLS-ROYCE 20/25HP SEDANCA
Coachbuilder Freestone and Webb made three 20/25s to this design, which went a long towards proving that not all smaller pre-war Royces are frumpy saloons suited only to provincial mayoral transport. Here instead was something delightfully rakish and with a Gurney Nutting air to it. Sold new to a Manchester owner in the early 1990s it received a full restoration that cost more than £100,000 and subsequently picked up numerous awards. Bought by the Manx Motor Museum in 2008 it had seen little use since.
SOLD £86,250
1965 PORSCHE 911 PROTOTYPE
